Poetry lovers everywhere, and devotees of A. E. Housman in particular, will recognize a major literary event in the publication of this volume, for it makes available for the first time some 800 lines of hitherto unpublished poetry by the well-loved autho more...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every chapter. ************. On the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our little house it was an event, the first great victory in a woman''s long campaign; how they had been laboured for, the pound-... more...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography and illustrations. This booktable of contents linked to every chapter and illustration. ************. O.P. Pym, the colossal Pym, that vast and rolling figure, who never knew what he was to write about until he dipped grandly, an author in such demand that on the foggy... more...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every chapter. ************. Barrie created Peter Pan in stories he told to the sons of his friend Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, with whom he had forged a special relationship. Mrs. Llewelyn Davies'' death from cancer came within... more...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every act. ************. The room is so obscure as to be invisible, but at the back of the obscurity are French windows, through which is seen Lob''s garden bathed in moon-shine. The Darkness and Light, which this room and... more...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierce waves... more...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. . ******************. The Sophist is one of the late Dialogues of Plato, which was written much later than the Parmenides and the Theaetetus, probably in 360 BC. After he criticized his own Theory of Forms in the Parmenides, Plato proceeds in the Sophist with a new... more...